2.8.1.1. General Prerequisites

2.8.1.2. Ncurses prerequisites

You need to make sure that the following libraries and development files have been installed from your distribution DVD/CDs:

ncurses

ncurses-devel

You can check whether they're there using the rpm -q PackageName command as above. Use the rpm -iPackageName.rpm command to install them if necessary (alternatively use yum installPackageName or a graphical package manager if available).

2.8.2. Linux Debian Distributions

These distributions include Debian itself and derivatives such as Ubuntu.

2.8.4. IRIX

2.8.4.1. General Prerequisites

2.8.4.2. Ncurses prerequisites

The EMBOSS configuration has been tailored to accept the Ncurses package available from http://www.freeware.sgi.com (as long as the cc compiler is being used and the configuration command contains a suitable -with-sgiabi switch. This is, at the time of writing:

-with-sgiabi=ncurses-5.3

It can be installed using inst and will be loaded into the /usr/freeware directory tree and so would be selected from the EMBASSY configuration using: